Question

The agrarian South was at a disadvantage against the

colder North
industrialized North
more liberal North
European-influenced North

Answer 1

industrialized North

Step-by-step explanation:

By the end of the 1850s, the South completely lost the economic war with the North.

Even deciding to embark on the path of industrial development, the South did this very late and at a slow pace. Although on the eve of the war, the South received $ 55-70 million annually from the sale of cotton, but the price of cotton in Europe was constantly decreasing, and its cost was growing. In 1850, only the textile factories of the North represented capital equivalent to 43 million dollars, while the factories of the South were estimated at only 2,000,000. The length of railways in the North was 6300 miles, in the South - 2300.